Day 359: Diary Appendix 36 - Letter from December 17, 1930
Saint Faustina’s Diary in a Year
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🗓️ 27 March 2025
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Summary
Today we read a letter from St. Faustina to Sr. Justyna, dated December 17, 1930. Listen in as Fr. Joseph Roesch, MIC, reads from this modern spiritual classic.
The Lord’s “Secretary of Divine Mercy,” St. Faustina, wrote what has become a modern-day spiritual classic — a blueprint for living a sacramental life in union with Jesus Christ. For anyone who may think the Diary is too thick and formidable, Fr. Joseph Roesch, MIC, has the solution. Join him for a few minutes each day as he reads from the Diary and offers commentary. Over the span of one year, you will have “read" the Diary, beginning to end, and absorbed its rich teachings.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Father Joe Roche of the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception. |
| 0:05.0 | Thank you for joining us as we continue with our year-long journey, |
| 0:08.0 | reading the diary of St. Maria Faustina Kavalska from beginning to end. |
| 0:13.0 | Today we have a letter from St. Faustina to her friend's sister Eustina from December of 1930. |
| 0:26.2 | Potsk, 17th of December, 1930, Jesus, Marian Joseph. |
| 0:32.1 | Dear Sister Eustina, thank you kindly, dear sister, for the short note you sent me, |
| 0:35.1 | and I am very sorry that I did not reply at once. |
| 0:39.0 | The reason is that I intended to write to you for Christmas and at the same time share the wafer with you, dear sister, on this beautiful day of the Lord's |
| 0:44.7 | coming to earth. Dear sister, may your heart rejoice boundlessly in God. Sister, do not put a stop |
| 0:53.1 | to love, for love never says enough. |
| 0:56.8 | I am praying for you, dear sister, that Jesus' love may reign in its fullness in your heart. |
| 1:04.7 | Beloved sister, please do not be too afraid of suffering. |
| 1:08.6 | We ought to love it, because, after all, in my opinion, there is |
| 1:13.0 | nothing sweeter than suffering. To suffer greatly without any help, if the Lord so wishes, |
| 1:19.9 | and in meekness and silence, is the greatest delight for me. Then suffering itself will cease, |
| 1:26.7 | and one can no longer call it suffering, but rather a delight. |
| 1:32.6 | Beloved sister, I am currently in Biawa. Sister Aloyja and Sister Zita are also here. It is very nice in |
| 1:42.9 | Biawa. The farmland is quite vast. You know, sister, I am so |
| 1:47.7 | happy that the Lord Jesus is here. He is everything to me. How is your health, sister? I heard that |
| 1:55.4 | you have been sick. But after all, everything that comes from the Lord is good, health and sickness alike. |
| 2:04.0 | The Lord knows what is best for us. |
| 2:07.1 | Please give my kind regards to all the sisters. |
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